Eating on Food Trucks

Eating out is always a challenge. The first picture has 2 plates. One is mine and one is someone else's.  Guess which one is mine?  Mine is the one without the bread.  It was a chicken taco without the bread.  I was not very satisfied after eating it because it was small and it was low fat.  there was no extra butter that I could ask for on the food truck.  Its limited fat on trucks.  Wish they would carry lots of butter for my tastes.  The second pic is just my food by itself in case you could not guess which one was mine and which one was someone else's.

What really satisief was pictures 3 and 4.  they are chicken skin balls deep fried with a lot of grease. i dont remember the rest of what was in there, just remember that it was a lot of fat. And fat i find very satifying and it makes me full and keeps me full.

there is always something that you can eat when out, whether from a  truck or a restaurant.  Sometimes its hard to find options, but the easy way is to just get something apetizing and ask them to hold the bread.    I was hoping there would be more options, as I really wanted to bite into a chicken leg but could not find that.  I did eat well that day and felt satisfied.  What more can a broke low carber ask for?

Breakfast with a good friend

Do you ever wonder what to eat when you go out?  I dined for breakfast with a really good friend of mine (No sadly, it wasnt Neta)---.  And there are a lot of high carb options, but how can you make your meal low carb?  Here is what I did-
I gave my friend all my carbs---thats why she has much on her side! the potatos were mine and i generously donated them.  She had pancakes, hashbrowns and eggs.  That is a lot of carbs.  I had eggs, steak tips, sweet peppers and onions.  I asked for extra  butter for the side, but when I took one bite,  I knew it was not butter, but actually margarine.

Breakfast was nice. It was nice for me to look at those pancakes, some times i like to see eye candy.  I did not eat any high carb items but ate a delicious low carb meal.  I drank water with my meal.  You can always make any option at a restaurant a low carb option, just give your carbs to someone else or ask the waitstaff not to give it to you.

Eating pizza again after 8 mos!!!!

I have not had pizza in 8 months, because I was low carbing.  One day while browsing, I came across this recipe

http://www.justapinch.com/recipes/main-course/italian/no-dough-pizza.html
My pizza came out looking more like a casserole than an actual pizza

oops, I put WAY too much toppings on it.  My take on it, its very very cheesey.  It wasnt hard where you could just pick it up with your hands, but you have to use a fork to eat it.  It tasted really good, and I didnt miss the high carb pizza.
I used chicken and peppers for the topping

 

Ingredients

CRUST

1-8 oz.

full fat cream cheese, room temperature

2 large

eggs

1/4 tsp

ground black pepper

1 tsp

garlic powder

1/4 c

grated parmesan cheese

TOPPINGS

1/2 c

pizza sauce

1 1/2 c

shredded mozzarella cheese

toppings - pepperoni, ham, sausage, mushrooms, peppers or any toppings of your choice

garlic powder

Day 12 - Berry Cheesecake Low Carb (9 carbs/serving)

Day 11 - Low Carb Shopping list! (Suggestion)

Never know what to shop? Here's a suggestion of real low-carb foods you can stock up on and have in mind each time you go to the super market.

Zero carb movie snack #2 ! Fast and simple!

Watch the video here!

Step 1 :
Get pork fat (or beef fat) from the butcher, I find pork fat so that's what i'm working with.

Step 2 :
Cut in pieces the fat. You can cut it in squares for chips or in strips for a replacement of bread sticks for dipping!

Step 3 :
Start rendering the fat in a pot or pan (i'm using a pot) at half the maximum heat your stove allows you. I was told to take out half the fat each time in order to avoid 'burning it'. Not sure what that means but it works anyhow!

Keep the rendered fat in a porcelain container of choice. I'm using a baking pan and then I transfer that in to a jar and keep it in the fridge.

Step 4 :
Season at will and enjoy your movie snack!!

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Breakfast on a budget

Want to start your day with A LOT of fat?
how about eggs, bacon and avacado?

Really simple, just dry everything in butter.

Its a great way to limit your carbs by having less for breakfast and you also don't spike your insulin levels much

Great for budget eating.  Eggs are cheap, one dozen for $2.   30 cents for 2 eggs.  Bacon is a couple of dollars an avacado is $2.  less than 1/4 was used so that is 50 cents. 1 pound of bacon is about 3.00 at 20 slices so that is 1 cents each, an comes to 30 cents.  Sometimes you can find the pack on sale for 1.29.


Total cost for breakfast is: 1.10

Budget breakfast, big amount of fat and protein!

Beef heart on a bed of vegetables! (cheap recipe)

So, as you can imagine, money is quite low.. So sometimes I need a cheap plan.

This is one of them!


- Half a beef heart
- Half a red bell pepper
- Half a green bell pepper
- Half a tomato

Feeds: 1 hungry low carber!
Estimated cost : 1.80 euros.

Step 1 :

Put the beef heart in a clay pot with spices of choice. If your butcher has cleared the heart from the extra fat, just add butter. Put the lid on and let it roast for 2-4 hours at 150-200 oC.

I generally let it roast for 2 hours at 200 oC then set it to 150 oC for the rest.

Keep the fat!

Step 2 :

Chop up the bell peppers and tomato and place on your dish (or in a bowl) and season to taste.

Enjoy!!

Low carb movie snack!! (0 carbs)

Video of this recipe! Click here!
We all want that crunchy-snacky food feeling when we're watching a movie..
Here's one that you'll absolutely adore!!

Pork Cracklings!

Ask for Pork Skin from your butcher. He may or maynot give you skin with a layer of fat. Whatever he gives, we can work with it. Some butchers just give em out for free, some sell them.

 Ask for your butcher to cut the skin in 1 cm width ribbons or do it at home. In order to do it fast, roll it up like a napkin and slice through.


Step 1 (if your pork skin has no fat, skip this step)

- Boil the pork skin ribbons for about 20 minutes. Drain.

Step 2

- Bake the pork skin ribbons for about 30 minutes. Drain (keep the fat)

Step 3
- Deep fry the pork skin for about 30 seconds to a minute in lard or butter. I tried with olive oil but the taste was too heavy. Drain and enjoy!!


Optional*

Season what spices you desire. Make it spicy or savoury to taste! Your call!

Cold tuna/ Hot tuna ! (emergency dish!)

So one of my 'things' is to be able to scrap up a fast dish.
I rarely go by recipe, I'm more of a 'what's in the fridge' type of cook.

Here are 2 dishes with canned-tuna-in-brine that you can do if you don't have much time.



Hot dish :

-Butter
- Drained tuna
- Mushrooms of choice (i use the small white ones)
- Heavy cream
- Nutmeg
-Fresh ground pepper
- Optional: coconut flour (1 tablespoon)

Execution:
Put a sauce pot on the stove.
Set heat to 3 (out of 6)
Put in a few slices of butter, depending on how 'buttery' you want the sauce to be.
Dice the mushrooms and chuck them in!
Let simmer for a few minutes, the butter will first get absorbed, don't add more, it will return to the pot in a bit.
When the mushrooms are cooked and the sauce looks thicker, if it's not thick enough, chuck in the coconut flour and leave it simmer for a minute more.

Put the drained tuna in a bowl, add the sauce.

Voila!! It's a hot dish!!




Cold dish :

- Drained tuna
- Half a tomato
- Half a green bell pepper
- 1 tablespoon of mustard.

Optional choices :
-Dill
-Homemade mayo
- Chopped boiled egg
- raw olive oil

Execution:

Just chop up everything, add all in a bowl, salad style.
Add the mustard in the end and mix it with the salad.
Enjoy a cool dish!!

Stuffed Pepper Recipe

Today's Recipe is Stuffed Pepper.
Its really EASY to make.  You can make a lot of them, cook them and keep them in the fridge until you are ready to eat.  These are GREAT to take with you to a party as a low carb dish so you have something to eat.  They make great appetizers as well as an actual meal.

What you will need

butter
bell pepper (use any color you want, I used green)
ground beef
spices (i used onion power, cayenne pepper, ginger powder, garlic powder.  You can add salt if you desire, i do not)
1 egg

In a frying pan, cook the ground beef until it becomes brown.  Mix in the desired spices while cooking.  You don't need to add any fats when you cook this because it can cook in its own fat.

Cut a bell pepper in half.  Clean out the inside.  Put your cooked beef inside the bell pepper and fill it to the top.  Preheat your over to 350 degrees.  Grease a pan with some butter and put your pepper inside.  Cook for 15-20 minutes.   Check up on it to make sure it is done

In a frying pan, cook an egg with butter.

Once your pepper is done, take it out of the oven and put your egg on top of the pepper.

Its really easy takes less than 5 minutes of prep time.  The oven does most of the work for you so you don't have to do much.